At night, the curfew began, and only the soldiers guarded the important strongholds such as the yamen, warehouses, and military camps in the city, and more Ming troops were seizing all the time to rest, thinking that they would recharge their energy tomorrow.

In the streets and alleys of the city, most of the characters who can convince the public in Lizheng and Benfang alleys are patrolling with a team of people with torches and sticks. The Chenghuang Temple, Dongyue Temple, Zhenwu Temple, and other places where people can live have been occupied by the people outside the city, and Zeng Ying and Lu Ruoteng have also organized patrols by the people. There is also no shortage of officials and patrolmen on the streets and alleys, and those inspections against spies have been carried out at the beginning of entering the city.

Everything in the city was in order, Chen Kai stood at the head of the city, the wind blowing his hair and official clothes, but he couldn't blow the standing body, let alone deviate his gaze from looking into the distance.

"Join the army, it's late at night, go back and rest, tomorrow the Tartars will come and you will be in charge."

After tossing for a long time, the standard camp returned all the materials looted by Zheng Zhiguan to their original places and remade the book. Every time a project is completed, Lin Dezhong will send someone to report to Chen Kai, and now, everything is completed, and the defense that the standard battalion is responsible for in the city has also been inspected, and after confirming that there is no problem, he came to Chen Kai to make a final report of the day, but what he saw was that Chen Kai was still blowing the wind in the city.

"Brother Lin, do you believe it, when Ma Degong heard that I was still in the city, he would definitely rush up impatiently."

"That guy is delusional, others don't say it, as long as Lin Dezhong still has a breath, no one can think about hurting even a cold hair in the army!"

Lin Dezhong has been in the army for many years since he entered the Chaozhou City Guard Association in Chaozhou, and because he was under Chen Kai, he also specially found a gentleman to teach him and his younger brother Lin Dexiao to write. In the past few years, the original mountain people and hunters have faded, and they may have to say a few foul words in the army, but when they followed Chen Kai's side, they always knew etiquette and etiquette, and never dared to lose a little face to Chen Kai.

At this moment, it is nothing more than a feeling, and it is all what you really think in your chest. Chen Kai changed his fate, for this standard camp general who married his childhood sweetheart as he wished, and now he is the father of two children, his loyalty to Chen Kai is completely incomparable to others. And Chen Kai has always been heartfelt to him, and he has been a little bit more popular, which can be described as a great way to cultivate.

"Don't worry, it's all called Degong, he is far worse than Huang Degong."

………………

Perhaps he heard Chen Kai's ridicule in the dark, and completed the landing at Wutong Wharf, and Ma Degong divided a group of soldiers and horses to stay behind as a retreat to Wutong Village, and then swept towards the southwest.

In Gaolin place, almost the same purgatory, the shouting and killing and laughing of the Qing army, and the wailing and screaming of the people, were intertwined in the night of February 27, disturbing the fox squirrels from afar, and even more disturbing Chang'e frowning and sighing, closing the black curtains, covering her ears and not being able to bear to look at it anymore.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the Qing army Rao knows that he is in the hinterland of the Ming army, and he will inevitably have the idea of rape and plunder. In this regard, Ma Degong, as the commander, did not have any desire to stop it, watching the people on this side who had not yet shaved their hair and moaning in pain under the iron hooves of the Qing army, but they were a little happy, as if this was a matter of course.

Keep your head without hair, and leave your hair without your head. Hehe, what can you do with shaved hair, you are all used as dogs for Tartars, and what's the big deal about killing a few untouchables. What's more, the Qing court had earlier reprimanded the Green Battalion in other places for killing too few people when they suppressed the anti-Qing forces, so why should these people who are commanders and generals not be human inside and out.

He was Huang Degong's subordinate general back then, born in the encirclement and suppression of Liukou, and later followed the Qing army south, what kind of scene has not been seen. Reverie flashed in Ma Degong's mind, but the military general next to him seemed to have some objections to this, and he needed his well-informed old qualifications to explain it.

"Ma Shuai, should we take the city of Zhongzuo as soon as possible, just in case?"

In case of?

In Ma Degong's eyes, it basically no longer exists, according to intelligence, the soldiers and horses of the three towns of the Ming army have now gone to the two towns, and the blood relationship between Zheng Zhiguan and Zheng Zhilong, who guards the Zhongzuo Institute, is very close, but in the Shijing Zheng family, he has always been an inconspicuous small role. At least, in Ma Degong's opinion, a guy who can only play some intrigues and tricks is not worthy of an attack by the army under his command.

"When the sons and daughters first arrived here, they always had to let them loot, and they would only be more desperate when they smelled the smell of blood. Don't worry, Haikou is just a little bit of a manpower, but it's just a matter of holding a handle. Maybe when we arrive, then Zheng Zhiguan will run away and disappear. ”

After that, Ma Degong laughed out loud. The Fubiao battalion came this time with a battalion leader, 1,000 soldiers and horses, led by General Feng Junrui. This person is Zhang Xuesheng's cronies, and he came to keep an eye on Ma Degong, lest he would monopolize the gold, silver and jewelry that the Zheng family had accumulated for many years. But they have a tacit understanding with each other, he is the boss, and he has full discretion to decide the strategy of war and defense. It's good to say good things at this moment, but I just don't want to offend this person in vain.

Feng Junrui knew that what Ma Degong said was reasonable, and his subordinates were not uninvolved, so he stopped talking. Gradually, even he began to immerse himself in this naturalness. But it didn't take long for a new piece of information to arrive, and the two of them couldn't continue to enjoy this matter of course.

"Chen Kai?"

"Yes, Dashuai, I specially arrested a few untouchables for interrogation alone, and they all said that the puppet army named Chen Kai in Haikou was stationed in Zhongzuo City. Moreover, he also killed Zheng Zhiguan, the coach of Haikou here. ”

"Zheng Zhiguan, dead?"

"Yes, they all said so, saying that it was the traitor Chen Kai who sent someone to spread the news and told them all to hide."

If that's the case, it's true. Ma Degong and Feng Junrui glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes. Chen Kai is just one of Zheng Chenggong's staff, even if he has to use it again, how dare he attack Zheng Chenggong's own uncle. But Chen Kai not only did it, but also publicized it to stabilize people's hearts, such a character is very consistent with the things he has always done.

"What a madman, no wonder he dared to assassinate Che Chong."

"A few months ago, in Guangzhou, the prince of Pingnan suffered such a big loss in his hands. It is said that even the emperor was shocked by that incident, and the imperial court had sent someone to Shanxi to check the family background of this guy. ”

"It's strange if you find out, Datong Mansion has been slaughtered, and there are five felons who are waiting to be killed, is it possible that there are still his relatives among those five guys?"

“……”

The two of you and I seem to be saying to each other, and it seems to be saying to themselves. In fact, there is a sentence that the two of them know, but no one said it, that is, in the battle of Pantuoling in the second half of the year before last, Wang Bangjun, the chief military officer of Zhangzhou Prefecture, was killed by the Ming army. And that battle, if it weren't for this Chen Kai's sudden appearance on the battlefield, it is estimated that for the Qing army, it would be a great victory for the Qing army to completely annihilate the town and kill Ke Chenshu.

"Great work!"

The Ming army was at a serious disadvantage, with unimaginable gold, silver and jewels of unimaginable value in the city, as well as a notoriously ruthless character within the Ming army. If they take the Central Left Institute, they want to have all the faces, and they can make a fortune in the real sense, so how can they not be tempted?

The Qing army, which had been scattered and raped and plundered, was collected as quickly as possible, and all of them were dispatched at night to investigate in the southwest direction. Ma Degong and Feng Junrui forcibly suppressed the dissatisfaction of the soldiers under their command and tried their best to accumulate physical strength. Early the next morning, they set out for the city and marched all the way to the center, and by the evening they had arrived outside the city and set up camp, more than a day or two faster than in history. (Note)

Note: Historically, the Qing army arrived at the city of Zhongzuo on the first day of the first month of March, when Zheng Zhiguan had already run away, and the Qing army directly entered the empty city to move things. In the lunar calendar, February 29 is not once every four years like the Gregorian calendar.